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Coco Rocha reveals that she was advised, at the beginning of her career as a model, to look anorexic. The renowned model now stands behind CFDA's new health initiative to promote health as being the way to being beautiful. Find out more details next!

Life as a model is amazing and appears to be all glamorous but
it seems that not all things are as they appear and Coco Rocha
reveals that she was told to look anorexic at the beginning of her
career. The stunning super model has been supporting CFDA's new
health initiative, a program that tries to promote health as a way
to being beautiful.

The Canadian beauty has been joined by model Doutzen Kroes in the
attempt to raise awareness of the importance of health and to help
models take the right path to being famous and appreciated for
their looks.

Speaking at the CFDA's new health initiative launch, Coco Rocha
spoke of the pressures she had to face as a young model, when she
was advised to look like an anorexic when she was just 15. Anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders that can
affect both men and women and that have horrific results, leading
even to death. Coco Rocha told Vogue that:

“I felt pressure early in my career. I was told: ‘The look this
year is anorexic. We don’t want you to be anorexic, just look it.’
This message was especially troubling given the fact that I was
only fifteen.”

The fashion industry has been blamed for promoting super skinny
frame models, encouraging anorexia and bulimia, and after several
deaths of models which battled these horrific illnesses, the
modelling industry has finally decided to take a stand and opt for
healthier looking models that are not all skin and bones. The new
organization, which promotes the idea that health is beauty,
implemented a new concept, that of having experienced models
counsel their younger accessors. Coco Rocha also said that:

At CFDA's new health initiative launch, Coco Rocha was joined by
Doutzen Kroes who also supports the idea of health as being
beautiful.
This is not the first time Coco Rocha has been open about the fact
that models are sometimes encouraged to become anorexic, and she
made it clear that this is something that she stands against. The
Canadian Beauty once told New York Times that:

“How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or
child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion’s
aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy
it.”

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Anca Rose

University graduate in love with everything beauty-related. I love to dream, laugh and surround myself with fabulous people.